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Possible ambiguous genitalia- help!?

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meghan827 wrote:

Congrats to all by the way! I'm pregnant with baby number #2... baby #1 is a perfectly healthy 14 month old boy. At our 20 week anatomy scan we were told they could not determine the gender. The doc and tech thought girl but there was something that looked like an enlarged clit but I guess also a small penis. They referred us to Maternal Fetal Medicine (MFM). After seeing them this week they have come to the same conclusion and are now for lack of better words at this point calling it Ambiguous Genitalia. Of course we still won't 100% know until birth which is about 5 months away. I was been so stressed and anxious over this now since the 20 weeks ultrasound. I can't seem to wrap my head around it if it does turn out to be this. Everything else looked completely healthy and yes I still feel like the joy that is associated with pregnancy has now been taken away from husband and I and turned into constant worry of the unknown. I did get the cell free DNA bloodwork but the results have not come back yet. They will tell us what the baby chromosomes are either boy or girl but still is only a screening test and not 100% accurate. They have us now coming in for genetic counseling to discuss other tests and also getting an amniocentesis. I have heard of this happening to people and when the baby is born everything is fine. I guess the docs have to prep us for the worst at this point. Anyone personally or know anyone that this happened too. Any insight would help.

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